As a fun project, I'm also working on sharing out POVRay rendering over 
a TCP/IP network (such as the Internet). Project doc is up at 
http://www.newerawd.co.uk/parpov

James Jackson.

Gergely Vandor wrote:

> "Hugo" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
> news:3c28f2b2@news.povray.org...
> 
>>I'd like to have such a program. Maybe it wouldn't even have to be
>>restricted to share power for Povray. But how will you split a Pov
>>
> rendering
> 
>>into pieces? The wise people say you can't use multiple CPU's in one
>>computer, so how will you do it over the Internet?
>>
> 
> Povray is able to render only a specified region of an image. It should be
> fairly easy to combine these regions to the whole image. Although as I'm
> writing this I'm becoming a bit uncertain since AA, radiosity, and photons
> (and maybe some other features too) can be problematic.
> 
> 
>>And there has to be done a lot for security as already said. Especially if
>>it's a broad application that allows other programs than Povray.
>>
> 
> If we're talking about povray, the only  real risk is file IO, which can be
> restricted to a single dir.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Gergely
> 
> 
>

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